directory
noun
[ dɪˈrɛkt(ə)ri ]
• a book or website listing individuals or organizations alphabetically or thematically with details such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
• a book of directions for the conduct of Christian worship, especially in Presbyterian and Roman Catholic Churches.
• the revolutionary government in France 1795–9, comprising two councils and a five-member executive. It maintained an aggressive foreign policy, but could not control events at home and was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Origin:
late Middle English (in the general sense ‘something that directs’): from late Latin directorium, from director ‘governor’, from dirigere ‘to guide’.